The Cybersecurity Research Seminar Series is a place where academic research and business views can be brought together. It focuses on real-world cybersecurity, privacy, and other related issues. Speakers from universities and businesses around the world, as well as our own PhD students and staff, are invited to the series, which aims to highlight diverse topics and viewpoints. Each seminar lasts for 60 minutes, including a 30 minute presentation followed by a 20-30 minute discussion. Both staff and students can attend and contribute, and there's no need for you to register before.
Seminar Timetable 2023-24
- First Half-Session
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Wednesday 4 October, 1-2pm - Online Event: Anatomy of a High-Profile Data Breach: Dissecting the Aftermath of a Crypto-Wallet Case by Dr. Svetlana Abramova , Universitat Innsbruck, Austria.
Wednesday 11 October, 1-2pm - Online Event: A First Look at Digital Rights Management Systems for Secure Mobile Content Delivery by Amir Rafi , Royal Holloway, University London, UK.
Wednesday 18 October, 1-2pm - Hybrid (On Campus Venue MacRobert MR815): Beyond Bytes and Bugs: Navigating the Human Side of Cybersecurity by Paul Baird , Qualys, UK.
Wednesday 25 October, 1-2pm - Online Event: It's more than just money: The real-world harms from ransomware attacks by Nandita Pattnaik , University of Kent, UK.
Wednesday 1 November, 1-2pm - Hybrid (On Campus Venue MacRobert MR815): Towards a robust, effective, and resource-efficient machine learning technique for IoT security monitoring by Dr. Idris Zakariyya , University of Glasgow, UK.
Wednesday 8 November, 1-2pm - Online Event: HW/SW Co-design for Security Systems by Huimin Li , Delft University of Technology, Netherland.
Wednesday 15 November, 1-2pm - Online Event: CyberForce: A Federated Reinforcement Learning Framework for Malware Mitigation by Chao Feng , University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Wednesday 22 November, 1-2pm - Online Event: Wearable Activity Trackers and Privacy: Assessment of the Risks and Threats by Noe Zuffery , University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Wednesday 29 November, 1-2pm - Online Event: Critical Infrastructure Protection - Current Challenges and Solutions by Prof. Leandros A. Maglaras , Edinburgh Napier University, UK.
Wednesday 6 December, 1-2pm - Online Event: Modelling a novel extortion attack: How Ethereum Validators can Fall Prey to Cyber-Extortion by Darren Hurley-Smith , Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
- Second Half-Session
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To be announced